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By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) Despite the pandemic, the San Pedro Bay ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach saw strong container imports in July, with the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Blanked sailings and network changes resulted in a mixed bag of throughput results at North Europe’s top two container

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Due to continued increased demand, THE Alliance is extending its Asia – North Europe ‘extra loader’ programme with

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Although now nearly a quarter of the world’s containership fleet by capacity is fitted with exhaust gas cleaning

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – With the containership charter market in the doldrums, demolition sales have picked up, with reports of a number of

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Despite the recent introduction of low-sulphur regulations, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) will continue to allow ships

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – 2020 will prove another challenging year for ocean carriers in terms of capacity management, according to Drewry.

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – MSC is on course to overtake alliance partner Maersk as the biggest ocean carrier by capacity within the next two years.

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – West coast US ports suffered last month, but there may be some relief with the news that the US government is

By Gavin van Marle in Rotterdam (The Loadstar) – Shipper opposition to deepsea liner shipping alliances may be dangerously misplaced, delegates at the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – With the second quarter now two-thirds done ocean carriers look to be heading for a second successive H1 loss, making a

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Around 16% of the ocean carrier global fleet – equating to 36% in terms of teu capacity – will be equipped with

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – A blanked sailing from the 2M+HMM grouping on the transpacific this week failed to halt the further erosion of

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – US west coast ports suffered most from a “tariff hangover” effect in 2019’s first three months, said Drewry

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The pro-scrubber Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 has strongly criticised the EC for urging the International Maritime

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Today’s Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) shows a marginal decline in spot rates to North Europe, but

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The number of exhaust gas cleaning systems (scrubbers) being installed on containerships is gathering pace, according to

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Protectionist trade policies are continuing to spook the global maritime sector, although a newly released report

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Mandatory speed limits could be shipping lines’ best hope of achieving the IMO’s 2030 emissions reduction

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Shippers have joined forwarders in condemning Maersk’s plan for new fuel surcharges to help recover the additional